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Farmers continue protest at Delhi border points for 3rd day, refuse to move to Burari ground

11:10 pm November 28, 2020

New Delhi: Thousands of farmers continued to protest the Centre’s new farm laws at the Singhu and Tikri borders on Saturday blocking national highways for the third day as they refused to move to the designated protest site in north Delhi, a day after they clashed with security personnel who stopped them from entering the […]

UK university strikes air quality research pact with Indian institute

Air ‘severe’ in Noida, Ghaziabad; ‘very poor’ in Faridabad

11:46 pm November 25, 2020

Noida: The air quality in Noida and Ghaziabad deteriorated to reach “severe” level on Wednesday, while it remained “very poor” in Greater Noida and Faridabad and “poor” in Gurgaon, a government agency said. Noida had its air quality in the “severe” category on November 15, a day after Diwali, when large parts of the National Capital Region recorded high pollution. Presence […]

Delhi graveyard running out of burial space with rise in COVID deaths

7:40 pm November 24, 2020

New Delhi: The biggest Muslim graveyard in the national capital near ITO is running out of burial space amid rising COVID-19 deaths with coronavirus victims from other NCR areas also being buried here, an official managing it said on Tuesday. “There should be some arrangement so that COVID-19 victims are buried at graveyards in their neighbourhoods and […]

Woman ‘pushed down’ from building by husband dies

11:40 pm November 22, 2020

Ghaziabad: A 22-year-old woman who was allegedly pushed down from a building by her husband last month has succumbed to her injuries, police said here on Sunday. Loni DSP Atul Kumar Sonkar told PTI that Sakshi died at her parental house on Saturday night. The woman was allegedly pushed down from a building by her […]

UP to test every traveller from Delhi for coronavirus

11:37 pm November 22, 2020

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government will test all travellers from Delhi for coronavirus, an official said on Sunday. Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary R K Tiwari said the state government is also considering restrictions on the number of people at weddings and other social programmes. Tiwari said infection cases have increased in UP districts bordering Delhi. It seems […]